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'''USS ''PC-1145''''', later '''USS ''Winnemucca'' (PC-1145)''', was a [[United States Navy]] [[PC-461-class submarine chaser|''PC-461''-class]] [[submarine chaser]] in commission from 1944 to 1955. In 1960, she was transferred to [[South Korea]] for service in the [[Republic of Korea Navy]].

==Construction and commissioning==
''PC-1145'' was [[Keel-laying|laid down]] on 2 June 1943 at the [[Defoe Shipbuilding Company]] in [[Bay City, Michigan|Bay City]], [[Michigan]]. She was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 27 October 1943 and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] at [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], on 1 June 1944.

==Service history==
''PC-1145'' completed [[shakedown cruise|shakedown]] training in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] on 11 June and reported for duty to the Commander, [[Gulf Sea Frontier]]. For the next year, the submarine chaser plied the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] off the [[United States East Coast]] conducting [[anti-submarine]] patrols and escorting coastwise [[convoy]]s, In the performance of those duties, the little warship ranged as far north as [[New York City]] and as far south as the [[Panama Canal Zone]].

Early on the morning of 11 October 1944, during a heavy rain [[squall]], ''PC-1145'' collided with the [[submarine]] {{USS|Blower|SS-325}}. No one on either ship suffered any injuries, but ''PC-1145''′s [[Bow (ship)|bow]] was smashed back to the first water-tight [[Bulkhead (partition)|bulkhead]]. ''Blower'' suffered a hole in her bow [[buoyancy tank]], damage to her [[conning tower]], and a sheared blade on her [[Port and starboard|starboard]] [[propeller]].

Following the [[VE Day|victory in Europe]], ''PC-1145'' received orders assigning her to the [[United States Pacific Fleet]]. Early in June 1945, she departed her base at [[Miami, Florida]], and headed via the [[Panama Canal]] for the [[California]] coast and underwent [[repair]]s at [[San Diego, California]], before continuing west to [[Hawaii]]. She departed San Diego on 15 July and arrived in [[Pearl Harbor]] on the 21st. She did not resume her westward voyage toward the [[Marshall Islands]] until 7 August. The submarine chaser reported for duty upon her arrival at [[Eniwetok Atoll]] on the 13th, but hostilities ceased the following day.

Nevertheless, the submarine chaser remained in the [[Pacific Ocean|western Pacific]] more than a year. For about a month following her arrival, she performed [[patrol]] and [[Escort destroyer|escort]] duty in the Marshalls and the [[Caroline Islands|Carolines]]. On 7 September, she departed Eniwetok for a round-trip voyage to [[Japan]], returning almost a month later, on 5 October. The ship then resumed her patrol and escort duties in the Marshalls and Carolines. After a round-trip voyage to [[Wake Island]] late in October, she reported to the atoll commander at [[Majuro]] in November for duty as station [[search and rescue]] ship. That assignment lasted until mid-February 1946 when she departed Majuro for extensive [[Maintenance, repair and operations|maintenance]] at [[Guam]].

She completed repairs on 16 June and departed Guam on an inspection tour of the [[Western Carolines]] carrying representatives of the [[United States Commercial Company]], a public corporation charged with responsibility for the economic rehabilitation of the [[Pacific Ocean|Central Pacific]] region. For the next four months, ''PC-1145'' served the United States Military Government administering the Central Pacific islands and worked hand-in-hand with officials of the United States Commercial Company surveying the region in preparation for efforts to reestablish a viable local [[economy]].

In November, she departed the Central Pacific for her first complete [[wikt:overhaul|overhaul]] since commissioning. She entered the [[Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard]] on 21 November and remained there until 23 December. On that date, she reported to the Commander, [[Fleet Training Center]], Pearl Harbor, under whose auspices she conducted refresher training and made a cruise to [[Hilo]]. ''PC-1145'' departed Pearl Harbor on 27 February 1947, and on 4 March, arrived at [[Midway Island]] where she reported for duty to the Commander, [[Naval Operating Base, Midway]]. There, she served as an air search and rescue ship until the end of the second week in May. Relieved by [[USS PC-1172|''PC-1172'']] on the 13th, ''PC-1145'' headed back to Pearl Harbor. The warship operated out of the [[Oahu]] base conducting upkeep and repairs and serving as a training ship until late July. She then returned to Midway and resumed duty as search and rescue vessel. On 15 November, [[USS PCS-1300|''PCS-1399'']] relieved her at Midway; and ''PC-1145'' returned to Pearl Harbor for a restricted availability.

For the remainder of her active career, ''PC-1145'' alternated between duty out of Pearl Harbor and service as an air search and rescue ship, at first based at Midway but later at [[Kwajalein]], [[Johnston Island]], Guam, and [[Samoa]]. After 1950, however, Guam and Samoa ceased to be [[duty station]]s for the submarine chaser and her sister ships.

Duty in and out of Pearl Harbor consisted of repairs, [[training]], target towing, and [[anti-submarine warfare]] operations. ''PC-1145'' departed Pearl Harbor for the last time on 19 February 1955 and arrived in [[San Francisco, California]], a week later. Following nearly four months of repairs at [[Treasure Island (California)|Treasure Island]], she stood out of [[San Francisco Bay]] on her way to [[Astoria, Oregon]], and inactivation. On 15 August 1955, the ship was placed out of commission at Astoria and was berthed with the [[Columbia River Group]], [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]]. On 15 February 1956, the submarine chaser—still inactive—was named ''Winnemucca'', after a city in northwestern [[Nevada]] situated on the [[Humboldt River]], and the seat of government for [[Humboldt County, Nevada|Humboldt County]]. She remained with the reserve fleet until 1 June 1960 when her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy List]]. On 1 November, she was transferred to the Navy of the [[Republic of Korea]].

==References==
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/winnemucca-i.html|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/blower-i.html}}

==External links==
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/011145.html Navsource.org: Photo gallery]

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